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SF3759 • 2026

Prohibit using student fees to compensate student athletes

Prohibit using student fees to compensate student athletes

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Abeler, Fateh
Last action
Final Acti
Official status
See HF4252
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Prohibit using student fees to compensate student athletes

Prohibit using student fees to compensate student athletes

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibit using student fees to compensate student athletes

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. Final Acti House

    See HF4252

  2. 2026-02-23 House

    Introduction and first reading

Official Summary Text

Prohibit using student fees to compensate student athletes

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to higher education; prohibiting using student fees to compensate student

athletes; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 135A.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

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[135A.0435] ATHLETIC FEES.

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Subdivision 1.

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Athletic fees.

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The governing body of a public postsecondary institution

must not impose or maintain any mandatory student fee or increase tuition for the purpose

of compensating student athletes.

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Subd. 2.

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Penalty.

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If the governing body of a public postsecondary institution violates

subdivision 1, the commissioner of management and budget must deduct from the

postsecondary institution's appropriation base an amount equal to one percent of the

postsecondary institution's appropriation base in the first year of the next biennium.

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